Benito C. Tan

Description

Dr. Ben C. Tan studies the taxonomy, systematics, evolution and conservation of East Aisatic and Malesian moss diversity for more than 30 years. He also is interested in the taxonomy of Philippine fern flora, especially the group of Selaginella. He has conducted numerous expeditions to collect and document the diversity of mosses in many countries in Asia and North America. As a result thereof, he has published more than 200 technical publications in various international journals and written several chapters in books on Asiatic mosses.

Dr. Tan is a member of the Committee on Nomenclatures on Bryophyta of the International Association of Plant Taxonomists (IAPT), and a member of the Committee on Conservation of Mosses of International Association of Bryoplogists (IAB). He is an adjunct researcher at RMBR of NUS and at the University Herbarium of the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Tan is member of Editorial Board of several international bryological journals.

He is currently an Adjunt Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore.

Tan, B.C. and Tan Swee-Hee. 2004. Country Report: Singapore – Its biodiversity, conservation and resource management, pp. 68-75. In: Proceedings of Chinese-ASEAN Workshop on Conservation and Biotechnology Application of Tropical Resources, held in October of 2004 at Haikou, China.

Farida binti Yusuf, B.C. Tan and I.M. Turner. 2003. What is the minimum area needed to estimate the biodiversity of pteridophytes in natural and man-made lowland forests in Malaysia and Singapore? Fern Gazette 17: 1-9.